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Audra DeStefano completes her Ph.D. for “Controlling Polymer Conformation and Hydration with Monomer Sequence”!

Audra joined the Han Lab in 2018 after graduating from the University of Wyoming. Her research focused on probing water dynamics on polymeric surfaces using a highly controllable polymer platform. She aimed to better understand the effects of polymer structure and chemistry on water dynamics to enable deliberate design of specialty materials for use in […]

Michael Vigers Completes His Ph.D. for “Probing the aggregation landscape of Tau”

Michael joined the Han Lab in 2016 after graduating from Montana State University – Bozeman. Since then, his focus has been on characterizing the sequence-dependent function of intrinsically disordered proteins. In particular, Michael works with disordered regions of the A2a GPCR to understand the relative contribution of disordered regions to A2a’s oligomerization properties, and the […]

Kate Zeng Completes Her Ph.D. for “Seeking the Structural Basis of Tau Seeding”

Kate joined the Han Lab in 2016 after graduating from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. Kate’s research has focused on understanding the aggregation of tau, an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) implicated in neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s Disease. She has been primarily interested in how tau can form extraordinarily stable amyloid fibrils and aims […]

Kan Tagami Completes His Ph.D. for “Instrumentation and Method Development for Efficient DNP in Electron Spin-Spin Coupled Systems”

Kan joined the Han Lab in 2016 after graduating from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Since then, his focus has been on the spin physics and instrumentation of dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) in solid state NMR. Kan’s goal has been to improve the efficiency of solid-state DNP under MAS through development […]

Khanh (Kendrick) Nguyen Completes His Ph.D. for “Investigating the Homo-Oligomerization of the Human Adenosine A2A Receptor”

Kendrick joined the Han Lab in 2016 after graduating from the University of New Orleans. Under the direction of Prof. Michelle O’Malley (ChE) and Prof. Songi Han (DCB) Kendrick’s research focus is that of human adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR), a model GPCR with a 122-residue C-terminus, on which a mutation appears to prevent protein oligomerization. […]

Audra DeStefano completes her Ph.D. for “Controlling Polymer Conformation and Hydration with Monomer Sequence”!

Audra joined the Han Lab in 2018 after graduating from the University of Wyoming. Her research focused on probing water dynamics on polymeric surfaces using a highly controllable polymer platform. She aimed to better understand the effects of polymer structure and chemistry on water dynamics to enable deliberate design of specialty materials for use in […]

Michael Vigers Completes His Ph.D. for “Probing the aggregation landscape of Tau”

Michael joined the Han Lab in 2016 after graduating from Montana State University – Bozeman. Since then, his focus has been on characterizing the sequence-dependent function of intrinsically disordered proteins. In particular, Michael works with disordered regions of the A2a GPCR to understand the relative contribution of disordered regions to A2a’s oligomerization properties, and the […]

Kate Zeng Completes Her Ph.D. for “Seeking the Structural Basis of Tau Seeding”

Kate joined the Han Lab in 2016 after graduating from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. Kate’s research has focused on understanding the aggregation of tau, an intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) implicated in neurodegenerative diseases including Alzheimer’s Disease. She has been primarily interested in how tau can form extraordinarily stable amyloid fibrils and aims […]

Kan Tagami Completes His Ph.D. for “Instrumentation and Method Development for Efficient DNP in Electron Spin-Spin Coupled Systems”

Kan joined the Han Lab in 2016 after graduating from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. Since then, his focus has been on the spin physics and instrumentation of dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) in solid state NMR. Kan’s goal has been to improve the efficiency of solid-state DNP under MAS through development […]

Khanh (Kendrick) Nguyen Completes His Ph.D. for “Investigating the Homo-Oligomerization of the Human Adenosine A2A Receptor”

Kendrick joined the Han Lab in 2016 after graduating from the University of New Orleans. Under the direction of Prof. Michelle O’Malley (ChE) and Prof. Songi Han (DCB) Kendrick’s research focus is that of human adenosine A2A receptor (A2AR), a model GPCR with a 122-residue C-terminus, on which a mutation appears to prevent protein oligomerization. […]

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